Yeah, I think my biggest problem will be spending too much money.

Yes that's it!

I hate you guys b/c you made me re-open my LEGO Education catalogue....now I'm about to spend more money after I just bought the Zome stuff you all talked me into getting.

Thank you!!!

If I know 100% that my kids would LOVE the NXT, I would get it. But I've been burned before by something I thought they would LOVE and then they didn't. This is just too expensive for me to be wrong.

If you have any other cheaper suggestions for those just starting out, I'd love to hear those too!!

Must..........resist...........pressure............

Ok some clarification.

The NXT Homeschool set+ Carnegie Mellon curriculum http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?pl=6&ID=1467&c=0&t=0&l=0 is only for PC. With that curriculum, you are buying a code to log into their website to do the class. This does not work on a Mac. If you want the stand alone software which runs only on your computer and requires no log on to Carnegie Mellon website, that will cost you $225.

that is what I was told by tech support at LEGO Ed.

here's more info on that software. http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/curriculum/middle_school/index.htm

Neato - You should definitely get your girls some of this stuff anyway! I didn't have ANY Legos growing up and I felt like I'd been totally deprived of a lot of fun when I found out what toys all the boys had been playing with.

My HG+ sister's FAVORITE toy growing up was LEGOs. She had the entire space collection and still has them and won't even let her boys touch them!!! LOL!!! I agree, all girls need to at least be exposed to LEGOs.

They were one of my favorite toys growing up. So versatile!

I know, I didn't have LEGOS either growing up and I think "So that's why boys know so much about physics!" Maybe that's why I keep buying my boys more LEGOs. I should buy LEGO stock instead!

Resistance is futile....